A protest to demand justice for Ramy
Elgaml, the 19-year-old Italo-Egyptian Milan resident who died
on November 24 in a scooter accident while being chased by the
Carabinieri police turned violent in Turin on Thursday night.
Police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators, who were members
of far-left collective groups, after they tried to reach the
'Bargia' Carabinieri police department in the northwestern city,
firing petards, tear gas and bottles against the Carabinieri
officials who were protecting the area.
The demonstration ended in the central Piazza Vittorio Veneto
where protesters announced new "initiatives of fight to demand
justice".
Prosecutors in Milan are probing the Carabinieri officials
involved in the chase as well as the driver of the scooter on
which Ramy was travelling, 22-year-old Tunisian citizen Fares
Bouzidi.
The Carabinieri officer driving the car that is suspected of
intentionally ramming into the scooter and Bouzidi are being
probed for involuntary road homicide but prosecutors are
considering to press charges of voluntary manslaughter with
"eventual intent" after a video showing various phases of the
car chase was released on Tuesday.
Other Carabinieri officers are being investigated for allegedly
trying to change the police report into the incident, which they
said occurred after the duo on the scooter fled a roadblock,
prompting the long and dangerous car chase that ended with
Ramy's death in the Corvetto district of Milan.
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